Omawë

Culture-hero of the Omawë and Yoawë twin cycle; with his brother he obtains water and cultivated plants and shapes Yanomami life. Humanity descends from the survivors of the great flood in the Omawë myth. (Omawë is sometimes identified with the demiurge Omama.)

Domains

• culture hero twins
• water rivers origin

Powers

• Win water and cultivated plants from the monster's daughter

Relations

• twin sibling: Yoawe

Sources

• Wilbert & Simoneau, Folk Literature of the Yanomami (1990)
• Lizot, Yanomami ethnography